Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A word about enclosed spaces




My Cubicle..
Ah, my solace from the civilized world..
The place I can rule..
The place I choose to clutter up or keep neat..
The place that the company thinks should be given to all employees to improve productivity..

But I just realized that I can now justify dozing off during office hours. Check this, this and this out, to get an idea of what i'm talking about.

Thanks to Wiktionary and a hundred cats.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

The Next Big Thing

It seemed apt for me to post this..




The Maldives might never know why they called their local fishing boat this, but Indian Cricket knows pretty well, that the winds of change have arrived.The chants of Sachin, Sachin in the stands have been replaced by a name that will be chanted for the years to come.

One recent news article referred to him as the Ranchi Rambo, one of the best names that journos have come up with for cricket players in the recent past. He has a presence on the cricketing arena that very few have had. His abilities, to put it mildly, far surpass the ordinary, makes you wonder as you go past the surprising, and sometimes even take you the realms of the mundane. Every kid these days, including Gen. Musharraf wants to copy his hairstyle.

I give you, Dhoni..


Did you notice that he is doing in the pic what he best likes to do on the field..

He's having a ball..

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Why did Yoda cross the road?

One morning, I get flooded with birthday mails, and I reply to the mails, thanking everyone, and finishing my mails how I usually do, with the Star Wars Phrase "May the force be with you".

A mollag comes in reply for that saying this is April, not May, so it would be "April the force be with you". This agitates a certain mollag maniac, who messages me on the office messenger, and starts shooting mollags as he cannot send replies, since his office is paranoid about employees sending external mail.

The end product is a list of phrases that Yoda might have used in different circumstances, or with different people, which goes something like this: ( Note that the list below is not exhaustive, and lots of new nonsense can be added to it..)

1. Stockbroker - May the bourse be with you
2. Golfer - May the course be with you
3. Richard Stallman - May the source be with you
4. Boatman - May the oars be with you
5. Obelix - May the boars be with you
6. Soldier/sailor returning from a long hard time looking for a good night out - May the whores be with you
7. Congenitally seasick landlubber - May the shores be with you
8. Viking lover - May the Norse be with you
9. Lion recovering from sore throat - May the roars be with you
10. Personal lawyer - May divorce be with you
11. Banker - May endorse be with you
12. Sponge - May the pores be with you
13. Quadruped - May all fours be with you
14. Marvin the Paranoid Android - May the bores be with you
15. Telegraph operator - May the Morse be with you
16. Mallu guy stranded in the desert looking for a way to escape - May the horse be with you
17. Big B/Sachin - May the crores be with you
18. Terminally lazy person - May the snores be with you
19. Housemaid - May clean floors be with you (aside: a housemaid's hesitant lover might say "I may clean floors to be with you")
20. Mafia don - May the chors be with you (can also be used above - chores)
21. Peahen - May the mores be with you
22. Jim Morrison fan - May The Doors be with you
23. Democrat American population in 2000 - May the Gores be with you
24. Winnie the Pooh who's just stolen the donkey's tail because he wants it for himself - May Eeyore's be with you
25. Sutherland employee - May outsource be with you
26. Miner - May the ores be with you
27. Shopaholic - May the stores be with you
28. Selfish person - May what's yours be with you
29. Hot babe who keeps getting annoying IMs from unknown idiots wanting to be friends - May ignores be with you


Cross Posted here...

..::Catch 22::..


A good day for me to return from my prolonged hibernation to the world of blogging.

And today, ironically, the first thought that struck me was this:

There was only one catch and that as Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed

Maybe it's because I turned 22 today. :)

PS: I realize that the pic above is really pixelated. Click on it to see the proper thing. And could someone tell me why this is happening??